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After Effects
Plexus 3
Rowbyte Plexus is a next-gen particle engine for After Effects that lets you create, manipulate and visualize data in a procedural manner. Not only you can render the particles, but also create all sorts of interesting relationships between them based on various parameters. New Feature: Minimum Distance parameter for Lines, Facets and Triangulation Render Objects.
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Plexus is a plug-in designed to bring generative art closer to a non-linear program like After Effects. It lets you create, manipulate and visualize data in a procedural manner. Not only you can render the particles, but also create all sorts of interesting relationships between them based on various parameters using lines and triangles. The workflow for Plexus is very modular allowing you to create truly infinite set of configurations and parameters.
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What’s new in Plexus 3?
Motion Blur
Finally. Now along with Depth of Field, you can add Motion Blur to create cinematic animations. You can use either comp settings or custom camera shutter values.
Sound Effector
A new Sound Effector Object let’s you sample a waveform from a sound layer in AE and apply it to vertex position or scale or color. You can also Echo the sampled waveform so that the sound is sampled over time.
Seamless Beams
Render sweeping volumetric beams with seamless rendering. Beams no longer show any ‘overlapping joints’. Not only it improves rendering performance, but also renders much more accurate colors.
Improved OBJ Import
You can now import OBJ files and file sequences using AE’s default file importer, which helps you organize footage better and collect project files. OBJ Object now also imports normals and texture co-ordinates along with vertex positions and facets.
Nested Compositions
Collapse Transforms for a nested composition, and Plexus behaves like a native AE composition. It reacts to Camera and lights of the native composition. It allows you to pre-comp Plexus layers and still have the flexibility to animate Camera movements.
Depth Map Culling
You can use a Depth Map exported by a 3D program or Buena Depth Cue to occlude pixels directly. It helps composite Plexus in 3D scenes with ease.
Null Object Performance
Null Objects have similar performance to point lights if you’re running the latest version of After Effects. No need to convert Nulls exported from 3D applications to point lights anymore.
Path Object Improvements
Path Object is improved with scaling controls for replication and tessellation for closed paths. Now there is yet another way to create 3D text in After Effects, but make it a little more interesting.
Custom Visibility Settings
You can gradually fade or vanish points, lines or polys when they get close to the camera or far away from the camera. You can also custom hide polygons that face towards or away from the camera.
Unified Rendering
Unified rendering allows all objects to have a common 3D space. It allows points, lines & polys created by multiple objects to intersect with one another in z-space.
Loop Noise
You can seamlessly loop noise values for animations. You can cycle through noise evolution and it works for position, scale & color values.
Main Features
These are some of the main features of Plexus. For a more detailed overview of all the features, make sure to check out the VIDEOS tab above and also the Documentation.
Lines
Create Lines and Other interactions and control their properties based on the position and distance between the particles.
Triangulation
Triangulate and create new surfaces on the fly with in-built triangulation modes. You can also control the triangulation by various parameters like distance between the particles etc.
Modular Workflow
Plexus has a modular workflow which consists for various objects. You can have infinite number of objects and different combinations which gives you complete control and flexibility.
Text Layer Integration
Plexus integrates seamlessly with the text layers in After Effects. It automatically creates particles based on the outlines of the text layers and you can create various text based transitions with ease.
Sprites
Render custom sprites based on the particle data and also randomize them. You can also render multiple custom sprites per particle which is very helpful for Infographics.
Sound Effector
Sample a waveform from a sound layer in AE and apply it to vertex position or scale or color. You can also Echo the sampled waveform so that the sound is sampled over time.
Noise/Field Effectors
Use Lights to create and control various force fields using Noise and Spherical Effectors. You can seamlessly loop noise values for animations. You can cycle through noise evolution and it works for position, scale & color values
3D Splines
Finally! Now you can create 3D Splines and stroke them with ease natively with in After Effects. Not only that, you can replicate them in 3D space.
SVG Sequence Export
Export entire Composition or the current Work area to an SVG Sequence. You can choose the right frame to print later or use them all in sequence to play an animated sequence.
Unified Rendering
Unified rendering allows all objects to have a common 3D space. It allows points, lines & polys created by multiple objects to intersect with one another in z-space.
Color Maps
Use Color Maps to affect the position, color or scale of points.
Facets & Facet Effectors
Generate Facets between the particles and control their properties using Facet Effectors.
OBJ Sequences
Import vertices and facets from OBJ files and OBJ file sequences created in your favorite 3D modeling application. Plexus ships with a OBJ Sequence Exporter for Cinema4D at no cost.
Graph UI Parameters
Graph based parameters let you control various properties like color, opacity and thickness based on user drawn graphs. You can also choose preset graph flows if necessary.
Containers
You can contain all the particles in a container which can be either spherical, cubical or a custom OBJ object. Containers help restrict the movement of the particles.
Instances
Create multiple instances and also nest those instances into another instance object and create multiple instances of that object. Crazy right? Its recursion for the crazy minded.
Slicer Object
The Slicer Object let’s you ‘slice’ through a mesh and create interesting visualizations. It works best with OBJ meshes and can be used very well along with the instance object.
3D Seamless Beams
Beam lines from particles of one object to another or in between various particles of the same object. You can control various properties of the beams using graph based parameters.
Camera/Depth of Field
Plexus interacts natively with AE's Camera and produces HQ OpenGL accelerated Depth of Field effects.
Motion Blur
Create cinematic animations using Motion Blur. You can choose to use AE's comp settings or manually override shutter values to create really dramatic motion blur.
Visibility Settings
You can gradually fade or vanish points, lines or polys when they get close to the camera or far away from the camera. You can also custom hide polygons that face towards or away from the camera.
Depth Map Culling
You can use a Depth Map exported by a 3D program or Buena Depth Cue to occlude pixels directly. It helps composite Plexus in 3D scenes with ease.
Upgrade notice: You can upgrade to Plexus 3 from Plexus 2 for $99.99. To get the upgrade pricing simply login to the same account as your original purchase. If you're a Plexus v1 user, you can upgrade directly to Plexus 3 for $149.99. If you have any questions or need any assistance upgrading please open a support request.
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Version History
3.2.10 -
Sep 15, 2025
3.2.9 -
Jul 31, 2025
3.2.8 -
Jul 6, 2025
- New Feature: Color Mode in Lines Render Object and Facet Render Object.
3.2.7 -
Jan 20, 2025
- UI related bugfixes in CC 2025.
3.2.6 -
Jun 7, 2022
- Minor bugfixes.
3.2.5 -
May 2, 2022
- Resolved MFR render issues on Nvidia GPUs.
- Minor bugfixes.
3.2.4 -
Dec 22, 2021
- Minor bugfixes.
3.2.3 -
Dec 1, 2021
3.2.2 -
Nov 23, 2021
- Floating License Compatibility Update
3.2.1 -
Nov 2, 2021
3.2.0 -
Oct 25, 2021
- Updated Installers.
3.1.14b -
Mar 14, 2021
3.1.14 -
Aug 30, 2020
3.1.13 -
Jun 1, 2020
3.1.12 -
May 12, 2020
3.1.11d -
Jan 21, 2020
3.1.11c -
Nov 5, 2019
3.1.11 -
Sep 9, 2019
3.1.10 -
Jun 20, 2019
3.1.9 -
Jan 6, 2019
3.1.8 -
Dec 2, 2018
- Minor sprite rendering fixes for macOS.
3.1.7 -
Oct 21, 2018
- Fixed an issue with vertex scale not set properly in some groups.
- Minor rendering enhancements.
3.1.6 -
Sep 13, 2018
3.1.5 -
Jul 3, 2018
- Fixed minor panel issues.
3.1.4 -
May 21, 2018
3.1.3 -
Jan 7, 2018
3.1.2b -
Oct 17, 2017
3.1.2 -
Jul 9, 2017
- Improved Plexus 2 project upgrades.
3.1.1 -
Jun 6, 2017
3.1.0 -
Apr 16, 2017
3.0.15 -
Apr 3, 2017
- Fixed headless rendering issues on render farms.
3.0.14 -
Mar 1, 2017
- Improved OBJ support.
- Minor bug fixes.
3.0.13 -
Nov 27, 2016
3.0.12a -
Oct 31, 2016
3.0.12 -
Oct 9, 2016
3.0.11 -
Sep 5, 2016
- Fixed Sprite Rendering issue with downsampling.
- Stability improvements.
3.0.9 -
Jul 24, 2016
- Fixed Render Glitches when applied to non-square pixel aspect ratio comps.
- Fixed a crash when using Sprites on Windows.
- Fixed Render issues on Mac OS X 10.9.
- Overall stability improvements.
3.0.10 -
Jul 21, 2016
- Rendering and stability improvements.
3.0.8 -
Jul 20, 2016
3.0.7 -
Jun 16, 2016
- Object based UI
- Motion Blur
- Sound Effector
- Slicer Object
- Seamless Beams
- Depth Map Culling
- Improved OBJ Import
- Nested Compositions
- Null Object Performance
- Path Object Improvements
- Custom Visibility Settings
- Unified Rendering
- Loop Noise
Compatibility
After Effects
2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, CS6
